Course summary

This vibrant mix of fashion communication and brand management includes creative direction and styling, fashion journalism, trend prediction and consumer behaviour. This will give you the skills you need to be a creative, confident, well-informed fashion communicator, ready for the industry. You will be taught by an industry-experienced academic team and by visiting professionals. There is also the opportunity to participate in live brand-based projects and competitions, including working with leading trend forecasters, magazines, and a range of high street retail names. You will develop visual and written communication skills across a broad range of creative media (creative direction and styling, art direction and graphics, print and digital design, branding strategy and journalistic writing) associated with the fashion industry. There will also be the chance to showcase your final-year work to industry leaders, at events such as Graduate Fashion Week in London. Based at our City Centre Campus, you will have access to photography studios and equipment, relevant software and computer equipment, as well as a Faculty of creative students to collaborate with. You can also choose our four-year professional placement option, which features a one-year industry internship. Foundation Year The foundation year is designed to give you the opportunity to develop your academic and interpersonal skills while developing your subject knowledge further to support you to success on your academic path. By studying a foundation year, your first year will be spent learning a wide range of broad subject areas which then open up opportunities for you to specialise further in your next year – which would be the first year of a full degree programme.